Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Intro:TsKIB SOO is the research bureau of sports and hunting weapons.
The prefix «MTs» coded in the name of a model means «Model of TsKIB».
It is very hard to find any centralized information about MTs pistols and I hope that all dates are right. I will try to contact TsKIB and we will see if we get any official historical information, manuals, photos... something.

Early rapid fire pistols series: MTs 1-1, MTs 1-2 and MTs 3-1 «Rekord». All these models were based on the pistol designed by Mikhail Margolin (1906-1975) in 1946-1948.

Later the series of rapid fire pistols got a new breath:
MTs 1-3 (designed in 1974, 97 pistols produced between 1981-1985)
MTs 1-3M
MTs 1-3M2 (designed in 1981, 239 pistols produced between 1981-1990)
MTs 1-5 (1989)
MTs 59-1 ('80s, new design with a magazine before trigger guard)